Partings

Poem for those bereaved, especially over the loss of a child.

Partings

Lay her beauty deep in earth

Underneath the frosty skies

For the love which from her birth

Pray and weep as here she lies

Mourning now, this is the hour

Darkness of the soul this night

Lay the wreath and funeral flower

Pray and weep in candle light

Lost to sight of human eye

Memory precious of delight

For the mystic harmony

Pray and weep, remembered sight

For the tears of human love,

Brother, sister, parent, child,

Looking down night stars above

Pray and weep, so gentle, mild

Partings now, not evermore

Grave below, we stand above

Waves crash down on nearby shore

Pray and weep, and ever love

Death comes with her crown of light,

Morrigan with such sad eyes

Journey’s end, as well it might

Pray and weep, as here she lies

Grief is a landscape robed in snow

Waiting spring, and weather mild

Wait in hope, with hearts aglow

Pray and weep, for my dead child

Ashes to ashes, here the sign

Life and death so freely given

On eagle’s wings, a spark divine

Pray and weep, and all forgiven